Ruger 10/22 magazine options

[BlackBuzzard]

Ok.....like others, I am going the Ruger 10/22, .22 LR route as substitute for .223 practice.

What are the preferred higher capacity magazines?

Which magazine reloading device works best?

The following link has some of the mags and the speed loader I am considering.

http://www.jgsales.com/index.php/magazines...ath/190_199?SID

All feedback appreciated.

BB

Edited February 4, 2008 by BlackBuzzard

[Dan Sierpina]

Of what's available today, I'd go with the Butler Creek mags. I had some of the plastic lipped model, and they worked well.

[open17]

Butler Creek are OK. If you are going to use them long and hard, pay the extra

for the steel lips.

[Stony Lane]

I just ordered a couple of these from Tactical Innovations. They look like quality mags.

Link:

http://www.tacticalinc.com/ti25-advanced-c...2ea649407968879

[rishii]

+1 on the tactical innovations mags

there a guy on the range that had a few of those and ran 1000's on rounds thru a adkins accelerator stocked 10-22 every range visit until the atf banned them. he claimed there reliability was due to the 4 adjustable allen head screws that allowed you to adjust the mags to the receiver.

[John Dunn]

I have a couple of the older Tactical Innovation aluminum mags, they are my favorite 10/22 mag by far.

[TRUBL]

I happen to look at the Tactical Innovation mags at the shot show.....although the aluminum mags are nice, I think I would go with the 'glass filled' mags at a cheaper price. I think they retail at $39.95 vs. $69.95 for the aluminum. They can still be taken a part to be cleaned and are also adjustable as well.

Edited February 5, 2008 by TRUBL

[Hank Ellis]

The 10/22 uses a lip on the magazine as the ejector. Whatever brand you go with, look for metal feed lips. Plastic will not take the abuse.

[Dan Sierpina]

The 10/22 uses a lip on the magazine as the ejector. Whatever brand you go with, look for metal feed lips. Plastic will not take the abuse.

The ejector on a 10-22 is a sheet metal piece attached to the trigger housing. Part #17

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/ns/schematic...0%2f22+R%2c+RB+

Edited February 5, 2008 by Dan Sierpina

[Hank Ellis]

The 10/22 uses a lip on the magazine as the ejector. Whatever brand you go with, look for metal feed lips. Plastic will not take the abuse.

The ejector on a 10-22 is a sheet metal piece attached to the trigger housing. Part #17

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/ns/schematic...0%2f22+R%2c+RB+

Yeah but...

The following quote is from ChiefDave of Rimfirecentral.com. "Ejector - Primary is located on the lip of the magazine. The secondary is located on the trigger assembly . MUST have one of the two. My choice is the magazine. The one in the trigger assembly is just a backup incase you dont have the mag in . who needs it ?"

ChiefDave has 67 10/22s that he's in possession of at last count in 2004. He's built up many more and then took apart because they didn't have the accuracy for the job he was asking the gun to do. Dave is probably one of the most knowledgeable 10/22 guys around that nobody knows about. Too bad he doesn't build up guns for sale. He could make a nice side income. When you drop $2400 in a 17hm2, you're serious. Link to gun porn.

[Dan Sierpina]

I haven't used Ruger mags in years. I bought some adaptors that use 30 round steel mags, probably around 1990. That setup worked better than any other hi capactiy mag system. My guns only use the ejector on the trigger guard.

[raz-0]

The butler creek reloading device works pretty well.. honestly I was shocked. But you only need them for high capacity magazines.

I use factory mags prepped according to cheifdaves specs. He knows what he is talking about. If you get something else, get something with metal lips.. period. The nylon lips won't last. Worst case they start going south and causing intermittent jams somewhere in the 500-1000 round range depending on your luck. It's not cost effective to cheap out in that area.

You can make factory mags drop free, but you won't have much luck with the banana clips, the longer, the more hassle to get them to drop free.

[AZGUNNER]

Tactical Innovations is the best in my opinion for high capacity mags.

[Tim James]

Thread bump.

Anyone know if the Butler Creek loader will work with the Tactical Innovations magazines?

[Stony Lane]

From the Tactical Innovations website:

18. Can I use a mag loader, like the Butler Creek model? (return to top)

We've tested both the Butler Creek loader and the Ramline loader. The Butler Creek loader works very well and we offer it on our webpage. We do NOT recommend the Ramline loaders because they have no "feel" when loading the bullets and they will often crush the bullet to be loaded into the bullet that is already in the mag, thus putting a dent in at least one of them. When you try to run the mag, the dented bullet often will not go into the chamber and the mag gets blamed for jamming. Load by hand if you want 100% reliability. It takes longer but works everytime. For plinking, use the Butler Creek loader available on our webpage. Avoid the Ramline loader.